When Jay-Z was thinking about making a album based on the movie American Gangster i wonder what he was truly thinking. With more than 10 years of experience in the game Jay-Z has often nodded off and stated that he would retire or become dormant. Jay-Z manages to bring …

Truly, Madly, Deeply, By Savage Garden is a song I like but now don’t listen to much after I found it on this one persons myspace page who is so mad at me I have no honest clue why. The song has a cool soft beat to it and …

This song came out a couple years ago when I actually liked Rihanna. Now, I just can’t stand her music. This song is really upbeat and is a great song to play in a club or at a school dance. I like music that I can have fun dancing …

Tell Me (You’re Coming Back) is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their self-titled debut record. Tell Me starts off with a nice acoustic guitar part which has a tone which honestly makes me think of Jimmy Page’s tone from Led Zeppelin. Jagger comes in with …

Hurt is a song by Nine Inch Nails which is the final track on their concept album, The Downward Spiral. Something to note about this song was that it was covered by Johnny Cash before the time of his death, but I’ll be focusing on the version by Nine …

Summertime Blues is a song by The Flaming Lips and the final track on their album Hear It Is, if you own an early copy of the record which includes this bonus track. Opening up with a distorted guitar riff, the song takes on a more aggressive rock sound …

Seek And Destroy, the penultimate track off of Kill —˜Em All, has to be one of the most well known songs from Metallica throughout their whole career and certainly, along with The Four Horsemen, the most well known song off of Kill —˜Em All. …

Overview —“ The Digitech RP-250 is a multi effects pedal used for guitars which has a variety of sounds, effects, amplifier models, and recording uses. I was looking into effects pedals and figured I would try out this pedal because of how much this one pedal could do and …

Escape, one of the final tracks for Muse’s debut record Showbiz, is yet another one of Muse’s tracks which I’ve been listening to a lot recently along with Apocalypse Please. The first few bits of Escape open up with a very melodic sound with Bellamy leading the track …

Salty Dog is a song by Flogging Molly which appears on their album Swagger. The track starts off fairly quietly with just an acoustic guitar strumming a chord progression and then a fiddle playing a lead over it before the rest of the band comes in to double this …

I really dislike it when Disney stars think that they can become triple threats just because they were given a contract by Disney to act. It is so embarrassing to see stars put out albums that do not sell many copies at all just because it seems to be …

“Shook Ones Pt. 2″ is the number 1 single by Mobb Deep. This was the reason you bought “The Infamous”. What made it even more enjoyable is that the album happened to be just as fantastic as the song. “Shook Ones Pt. 2″ is the number reason that put …

The Elvis Presley: Elvis The Alternate Aloha CD is the recording of the dress rehearsal for the famous Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii TV concert. Well, it sort of is. The liner jacket actually gets very specific on how this digital recording was put together, and it’s both …

The second cd by rapper “The Game” was titled “The Doctors Advorcate” but the title was deceptive since it included no tracks which were actually produced by Doctor Dre. The cd included the single “One Blood” which became a hit on the streets of New York and LA almost …

I admit that even though I have been reviewing mostly indie and alternative music in this site, I’m still a huge fan of Pop music especially after country superstar Taylor Swift converted into the genre.
Obviously, we all know that Taylor Swift was not a pop star for at least …

Lil’ Wayne —“ I’m a Monster
The drought is one of Lil Waynes best mixtapes and it showcases how he evolved as an artist over the years. The mixtape opens up with “I’m a Monster”.
“I’m a Monster” gives the mixtape a very strong start. I think that this is a very …

Puff Daddy ft. Jimmy Page
“Come With Me”
“Godzilla”: The Motion Picture Soundtrack
Bad Boy Records
Due to some previous considerable success with his rock remix of “It’s All About The Benjamins”, Puff Daddy was selected to take another jab at the rock genre for motion picture soundtrack to 1998’s “Godzilla”. Here he …

Overview —“ Geek Stink Breath, the fourth music video released by Green Day marks the first music video for their forth album, Insomniac. Geek Stink Breath still has that very catchy vocal melody and style that Green Day had on the three music videos from Dookie which were Longview, …

I usually pull out A Soap Opera Christmas CD to play at least once during the Christmas season. These particular compilation includes songs sung by cast members of As the World Turns, General Hospital, One Live to Live, Another World, The Young and the Restless, The Bold and …

So happy I could die is a song on Lady Gaga’s new album, The Fame Monster. This is one of my favorite tracks on her new album. I love this song. I completely recommend this song to any Lady Gaga fans. This song is a typical Lady Gaga song …

Years ago when I was still just becoming familiar with the hard rock and metal genres of music, a late friend of mine introduced me to a band called “Lacuna Coil”. I’d heard gothic bands before, but their music style was almost completely different from anything I’d heard at the …

I wanted to write a review about this children’s show called Jack’s Big Music Show. Not only is the show focused on music, it showcases all kinds of music. From rock, to opera, to jazz and dance, and everything in between. I think music is so important not only …

Overview —“ Warning, Green Day’s sixth album, really has quite a different sound than what I was expecting it to have and definitely not in a good way. The band seems to try and merge their electric and acoustic influences on this album, but unlike on past works where …

Taylor Hicks’ self titled CD is one of my favorite CDs released in the past five years. The CD has thirteen different songs and at least ten of them are very catchy. Most of them are really good songs; the kind of songs you find yourself singing along …

“Possum Kingdom” is probably the most famous of songs released by the Dallas Fort Worth band The Toadies. It single handedly propelled them into fame during the mid 90’s and played it’s part in making the album it appeared off of - “Rubberneck” attain platinum status. “Possum Kingdom” is …

Peaceful Evening by David & Steve Gordon is an audio CD that captures a particular time of the day and transfers that part of the day into slow and soothing musical pieces. Much like the often warm sun that sets in the evening, these tracks too are composed in …

Bruce Springsteen released Magic in 2007, an album eagerly awaited by fans and critics alike. His first outing with the E-Street Band since 2002’s The Rising, a lot was expected of the Boss this time around.
Hopes, high that this album would be as impressive as the one from …

Pearl Jam busted on the scene with a new sound and simplified fashion sense that was a far cry from the spandex and big hair days.Their music dealt with darker themes that invoked emotional response from each listener.Pearl Jam has went on to do great things in music but …

This record is truly fantastic, and it is very diverse as well. There are several types of songs on this album, all of which sound appealing. This album has something to offer for all music lovers. I think that thematically this album can be divided into two parts, with …

I bought this Ibanez RG 550 BK two years ago,it was my second guitar with floating bridge (floy rose) system.I needed a backup guitar with floating bridge because my covers band plays songs from hard rock guitarrists like Van Halen,Pantera,Joe Satriani and all of these guitarists have this type …

If you want to talk about a diverse singer, Kid Rock would be the one. He changes sides so often that you almost can’t keep up with him. He goes from songs like “American Badass” to “Picture” without batting an eyelash. Honestly, I don’t even know what genre that …

“Everybody Plays the Fool” by The Main Ingredient is easily one of my favorite songs of all time. From the first time I heard it on the radio, the song clicked with me. It is so very true to the way love works that it causes me to tear …

Overview - Side I of The Fragile, Nine Inch Nail’s third full length record, contains some of the best aggressive work and also some of the best melodic work they’ve ever put out through their entire career. Right from the opening track Reznor sounds excellent vocally and shows he …

Electric Ladyland was the second album released by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.The album remains a landmark of the musician’s sense of experimentation, brilliance, and creativity.The songs featured on Electric Ladyland are nothing compared to anything that exists today.Sure technological innovations have blown the barriers off of modern music.However, Jimi …

Thetawaves is a song by System Of A Down which appears on their record Steal This Album. The song opens up with an extremely aggressive and heavy rhythm led by Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan Tankian comes in with the vocals for the track, but surprisingly they’re really not …

London Calling is the album where The Clash broke the shackles of the punk rock genre and launched themselves as the greatest rock n roll band of a generation and one of the greatest of all time.
Though released in 1979 in the UK and 1980 in the USA, the …

“Confinement” is a track off of the Silent Hill 4 Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack was released alongside the game in 2004, and was made by Akira Yamaoka. Yamaoka has always been hailed a musical genius when it comes to making ambient and creepy music/sound effects. As Yamaoka started to …

Overview —“ Damage, Inc. the final song on Metallica’s third record, Master Of Puppets, opens up with a layer of bass lines before giving way to one final thrash assault for this record. In a sense this song is pretty similar to the structure of Battery except Damage Inc. …

Labels or love from Fergie is become one of the motion picture original soundtrack from ‘Sex and the city’ movie. I think the theme of the song is very match with the movie.
The lyrics is tell about shopping and shopping. We can enjoy ourself with shopping some famous labels, …

To Live Is To Die, the third instrumental released by Metallica, is unfortunately a track which I define as having a truly brilliant middle melodic section, one of Metallica’s greatest sections throughout their career, but for the most part is just a lot of boring rhythms without much progress …

“Chaka Demus and Pliers” are an internationally famous reggae group which I used to love to listen to when I was very little. It was actually a duo where Chaka Demus used to be the deejay (which is like a Jamaican rapper) and Pliers used to be the …

The Lantern is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Their Satanic Majesties Request. I’ll say right now that The Lantern has an extremely odd structure which makes describing this song somewhat difficult because the track is extremely unpredictable and is constant changing in ways …

This is The Twelve Days of Christmas with a dark British spin. It starts off with harmless gifts being sent from a female friend to this British comedic genius. First she sends the usual gift of a partridge in a pear tree. Second was two turtle doves who had …

The song Six Days On The Road which is sung by Red Sovine is about a truck driver who wants to get home to see his family. It reminds me of my husband when he worked on a construction crew in Washington DC a few years ago. He worked …

This album is of course very influential. It became very popular, and many bands tried to copy its sound. But, as far as I am concerned, I do not think that this album is perfect. For me this album consists of several elements, and while some of them are …

Overall, Reba McEntire: So Good Together CD is pretty good. It made great background music for me as I did things around the house. Sometimes I sang along and sometimes it made me stop and listen, while at other times, it was just music filling the air.
The …

Carry That Weight is one of the very last tracks on Abbey Road and although it is only 1:36 in track length, I feel like it offers quite a lot of music for that short amount of running space. I make a point to stress the time and length …

I Get Wet is the debut album by Andrew W.K., a guy who seemingly appeared from nowhere with the release of this album in 2001, the music is heavy, but not heavy enough to be metal, it’s hard rock and every song here is about partying (or almost) the …

In The End is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Dookie. The track starts off with a pretty quick riff along with each of the instruments as well as Armstrong’s vocals starting simultaneously. The song has that characteristic punk sound of the band led by …

I love soulful songs. Songs about love, heartbreak or fun given with passion always drew me in . I also love an old school flavour in my music. I was told i have an old soul because of it. This album by Cee Lo is an fulfils both sides …